第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将选项的标号涂黑。
There once was a little boy who often lost his temper and ended up quarreling with his friends. In order to help the son, his Father gave him a bag of 36 and told him that every time he lost his temper and got mad at 37 , he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the little boy had 38 thirty nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, 39 he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually became 40 .Three months later, the little boy discovered it was easier to 41 his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. 42 the day came when the little boy did not lose his temper 43 .
He told his father about it and the father 44 that the little boy now pull out one nail 45 each day when he was able to control his temper. The day passed and the little boy was 46 able to tell his father that all the nails were 47 .
The father 48 his little boy by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the 49 in the fence. The fence will never be the 50 . When you say things in anger, they 51 a scar just like this one on the person to whom you lose your temper. You 52 put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t 53 how many times you say I’m sorry, 54 the wound is still there. A wound caused by words is as bad as a 55 one. the hurt and pain caused by the tongue are deeper than those caused by the hand.”
36．A．books B．tools C．nails D．suggestions
37．A．somebody B．anybody C．everybody D．nobody
38．A．discovered B．driven C．pushed D．pulled
39．A．till B．unless C．as D．although
40．A．smaller B．larger C．easier D．shorter
41．A．catch B．hold C．break D．lose
42．A．And then B．As with C．Up to D．From then on
43．A．after all B．at all C．in all D．at once
44．A．desired B．requested C．intended D．suggested
45．A．for B．with C．of D．at
46．A． eagerly B．fortunately C．finally D．hardly
47．A．lost B．returned C．gone D．spared
48．A．seized B．showed C．touched D．took
49．A．nails B．cuts C．holes D．surface
50．A．one B．best C．same D．fence
51．A．run B．leave C．lead D．remain
52．A．can B．will C．should D．need
53．A．change B．matter C．survive D．disappear
54．A．but B．or C．so D．for
55．A．physical B．violent C．terrible D．Serious
